Our Most Important Meal of 2020

As this year ends, we look at our schedules that have been decimated by Covid-19. No concerts, no sporting events, no movies, no large gatherings. Many of us want to skip to the end of 2020 already and move on with a fresh start in 2021.

Let me suggest that there is one very important meal for us all to have, and we don't have to wait until the new year to have it. This meal will certainly be THE most important meal for each of us, not just in 2020, but in all of our lives. 

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Revelation 3:20

"Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with that person, and they with me."

What a wonderful promise from Scripture! 

So, who's ready for this meal? 

Remember, the food isn't going to be what is most important, and the phone needs to be nowhere in sight. 

Each of us will be opening that door and accepting an invitation from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

He will sit across the table from us. We will nervously look down at our plates at first, and then He will call us by name, and with caring eyes and a soothing voice say, "How are you doing?"

No schedules. No distractions. No interruptions. 

"Well," we will start to cheerfully reply ready to fill the room with stories of our latest exploits. But as He reaches for the water glass and we catch a glimpse of a scar, the magnitude of the moment actually hits us. We look down and just fall silent. 

Our guest asks the question again, "How are you doing?"

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We get the feeling that He doesn't necessarily want a report on the busy-ness that fills up our days. He wants us to be real. He wants to be personal. He wants a one-on-one relationship with each one of us. He wants to know us and more importantly, for us to know Him. 

This is going to be a memorable meal. 

This is going to be an important meal. 

This is going to be our most important meal.

This needs to be an individual meal. I am going to continue my own meal alone with Jesus. Please, open your own door and have your own important meal. No schedules. No distractions. No interruptions. 

Heavenly Father, I confess that I am a sinner in need of a Savior. Thank you for sending Jesus to sacrifice Himself for the sins of the world. Thank you for the promises contained in the Bible. In Jesus' Name. Amen.

John 3:16

"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life." (NIV)